title: Clinical practitioner's attitudes towards the use of Routine Outcome Monitoring within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: a qualitative study of two Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
abstract: Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) is held as a greatly important part of practice across many Health Care Services, both in the NHS and in private practice. Yet despite this, there has been little research into the attitudes of practitioners towards ROM. This paper looks at the attitudes of 50 clinicians from two Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in greater London. The findings showed that although the practitioners were not overwhelming positive in their attitudes to ROM, neither were they overwhelming negative, and many of their concerns involved practical issues surrounding ROM that are potentially soluble. Practitioner engagement in ROM is key if ROM is to be used constructively to reflect on practice.
authors.affiliation: University of Exeter Medical School, UK.
authors.forename: Shelley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Norman
authors.affiliation: University of Exeter Medical School, UK.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dean
authors.affiliation: University of Exeter Medical School, UK.
authors.forename: Lorraine
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hansford
authors.affiliation: University of Exeter Medical School, UK tamsin.ford@pms.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Tamsin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ford
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care
keywords: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services; Routine Outcome Monitoring; advantages and disadvantages; implementation of Routine Outcome Monitoring; practitioners